
When Yamato in the anime adaptation showed up in a bikini, it didn't take long for skins to be made for her WOWS counterpart to have "camouflage" matching the swimsuit.Many features now in the game are also implementations of features formerly only available through mods. The game is very friendly to mods in general - the devs are aware of the existence of mods and even, on their Russian forums, curate their own modpack.Game Mod: The fandom was quick to put together a mod where each ship was represented by a cute girl in order to make WOWS a little more like KanColle, and that mod was later expanded to include Kankore-like menus."Admiral" is seen by some of the fanbase as the most appropriate of these nicknames, because the player has multiple in-game "Commanders" (the guys you place on ships and assign skill points to) under his or her command. The latter two are shared with those who also play KanColle, given the shared theme between the two games. Fan Community Nicknames: Players are often referred to as Captains, Commanders, Admirals, or "Teitoku".

It found early success and even managed to pull people away from WOWS, but various failures by the developers, and a lack of advertising meant that by 2017 the server population had cratered, the developers ended patch support for the game beyond basic server maintenance in 2018 and it was completely shut down in early 2020. There were some notable differences, such as including Submarines long before World of Warships had even begun testing with them.

